I have a Hypercard stack that is a classroom management utility I marketed to schools throughout the United States in the 1980s and 90s. http :// inyopro. com/ microecon

I am in the process of reviving the product, but the only copies of the program I can find in my archives are password protected and I have lost the password and every logical guess is wrong.

Is there a way to either extract the scripts or open the stack in LiveCode or some sort of text editor. I have the file as an .hqx file, which may be a way to access the text of the scripts, I am not sure. Any help with this will be greatly appreciated.

If this is the wrong place to post an inquiry of this nature, please advise me as to where it should be posted.

googling for this turned up 3 options besides looking at the scripts in a text editor.

unprotect.hqx

HyperZap

DeprotectHypercard.zip

I remember using one of those but don't have them around anymore. I downloaded those three but don't want to upload them here because of copyright etc. I did not open the files since I can no longer run Hypercard due to System 10.6.8.

This allows you to swap the data and the resource fork so that ResEdit can open the data fork for you, you can then copy paste that into a text-editor and you will,
at least, have something to get started with.